Finance & Strategy
Enterprise decision support
Financial modeling, forecasting, business cases, performance management, capital allocation, and strategy across complex operating environments.
About
Lucas Hobbs
Founder & Principal | Finance, strategy, analytics, commercial decision support, and business education.
Experience at Scale
Built inside complex operating environments. Applied without the bureaucracy.
Lucas brings more than 13 years of Fortune 100 finance, strategy, analytics, supply chain, and transformation experience. His work has spanned multibillion-dollar spend and capital portfolios, negotiation strategy, investment analysis, executive decision systems, operational performance, and large-scale process redesign.
$10B+enterprise spend and capital governance
$500M+value captured through negotiation strategy
50,000+labor hours eliminated through analytics and automation
35+professionals led in multi-level organizations
Commercial
Negotiation and value capture
Cost and price analysis, quantified negotiation strategy, risk evaluation, trade-space development, and commercial decision support.
Analytics
Decision systems and automation
Enterprise analytics platforms, KPI systems, automated risk monitoring, integrated reporting, and workflow redesign.
Education
Finance for non-technical audiences
Thirteen years of finance instruction, including development and administration of Finance for Non-Technical Audiences, the 2014 Ed Wells Program Professional Instructor Excellence Award, and content later used in Boeing / University of Washington professional development programming.
Education
Bachelor of Science | Portland State University
One bachelor's degree with majors in Finance and Supply & Logistics Management. 3.8 GPA and merit-based scholarship.
Why Play At Scale
The Benefits of Scale, Regardless of Size.
The underlying premise is straightforward: smaller and mid-sized businesses can benefit from the analytical rigor, decision discipline, financial structures, and management systems used in large enterprises without importing their bureaucracy, layers, or overhead.
Legal Identity
Play At Scale Services
Play At Scale Services is a DBA of PASS LLC. The business is Seattle-based, with advisory and education work not geographically limited to Seattle.
Bring the right level of structure to the problem.
Advisory engagements and education offerings are scoped around the work that needs to be done, not a prepackaged consulting model.